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In tagged / / / / / / byOne of the early VR experiences on PC, Raw Data was incredibly well received and now it’s officially released and also landed on PSVR. Shooting galleries are ten a penny in virtual reality but thankfully this one is different.The story sets you in a dystopian future trying to infiltrate the Eden Corporation that runs the world, ‘helping’ the population. This will lead you through ten stages that take you up through Eden Tower, where you and the voices in your head, Angel and Simon, will make discoveries that will add new meaning to the mission. The story is fine, but the characters do go on a lot.Obviously you can just ignore them and move on but if you’re wanting to follow the story then you’ll be stood around waiting for conversations to finish, with many overly long pauses in the dialogue giving you false hope that everyone’s done. Not game ruining, as I said you can just carry on regardless but a more elegant method of story telling would have been appreciated.Before you go into a mission you can do some basic training to get used to the controls and characters you can select. It’s a good idea too as Raw Data isn’t like other shooting galleries like or in that you can just sit there and shoot things as they appear in front of you, in Raw Data you actually.gasp.

get to move. There are two methods of movement, one being teleport and the other allowing you to move forwards and backwards based on the direction you’re looking in or where your hand is pointed. I stuck with teleporting for most of the game as the controls are pretty complicated for movement but you can strafe in the free movement mode which will allow you to pull off some much needed dodges if you can get your head around it.Even the teleport method takes some getting used to as you’re required to press the cross and circle buttons on your main hand Move controller (two are required to play) to turn left and right, whilst the teleportation is mapped to the Move button on your off hand. Initially I wanted all the movement on my left hand whilst mostly shooting with my right but I quite quickly got the hang of it and as I experimented with different characters my right hand was not the only one doing the attacking any more.There are four characters to choose from, each with a different weapon. Bishop is a pistol user, Boss is a shotgun wielder, Saija uses a katana whilst Elder has a bow and arrow.

Each weapon has their own intricacies. The pistol requires reloading after fifteen shots (or earlier if you prefer) which means you need to reach down to your hip with you off hand and bring the clip up to your gun. The shogun requires pumping between every shot, again with your off hand. The katana is just that and the bow and arrow doesn’t require you to grab an arrow, one just manifests as you pull back the string but if you hold it there long enough it become more powerful.Each also has special abilities, with new ones unlocking as you complete levels with them.

Oct 18, 2017  Raw Data Review – A Short Circuit (PSVR) When it comes to a virtual reality experiences, it’s suffice to say that I’ve played my fair share of shooting galleries. I had begun to think that they. Raw Data has finally left early access (I feel like I've been saying “left early access” a lot lately) and it's turned out to be one of the best VR.

Bishop can forgo reloading with a clip and simply bring the gun to his holster to reload which is extra helpful when you unlock the dual wield ability. Boss can fire grenades, Saija can throw her sword like a boomerang and Elder can create a damaging area of effect of the floor. There are plenty more abilities too, either enhancing current abilities or brand new ones and you can replay levels with these skills to improve your score or on higher difficulties. Super moves run on a generous cooldown and allow you to put out major damage for a brief time.All characters can also place structures around the map like a tower defence game, with more unlocking as you progress. The basic laser turret has good range but the bullet takes a while to travel, a plasma turret is short range but pumps out a constant stream of hot death, whilst the shield creates an orb that blocks projectiles.Even though you can move around you are still basically confined to an arena.

They come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes but, apart from the first level, you’ll be protecting a hacking station from all the evil robots that come to attack you. If you die then you respawn relatively quickly but if the hack is destroyed then you have to start the whole level over again, and they aren’t that short. Not overly long either but I certainly started to feel it in my back with all the twisting and ducking with my arms out in front of me after a few levels.The enemies themselves come in multiple varieties but you will have seen them all long before the end of the game, which is a shame.

Your basic ones will simply walk up to you and try to punch you, others will have guns, there are flying drones and bigger robots which shoot lasers or fire rockets take more damage. The environments can get a bit samey though there are one of two that are very different, it’s just unfortunate that that isn’t maintained throughout.Technically I didn’t have too many problems with my VR set up.

You need a decent amount of room around you with a full range of motion with your arms and on the odd occasion my right hand would bend in odd directions (in game) which would effect my aim but as long as you can stay in relatively the same position then you’ll be okay. In the heat of battle you sometimes forget that you must turn with buttons and not simply move yourself but a grid on the floor shows you which way you should be facing at any time and arrows appear if you twist too far for the system to track, reminding you of your place. Ourworld.

It’s not perfect but works very well within the confines of the hardware and shows that simple tech demo style shooting galleries aren’t the only way to go.Visually things are a little disappointing with very blocky visuals which doesn’t really trouble your aim but makes any in game writing pretty much illegible after a certain distance. As things get further away their frame rate noticeably drops and and the draw distance on certain objects, like explosions, is unfortunately shallow. One of the early tutorials asks you to move to the ‘spinning E’ and I couldn’t see it, it was only when I moved a little that it appeared because the position I was in was just out of its drawing in range. Again you could probably blame the hardware but I’ve played better looking PSVR games.You can’t fault Raw Data for showing the way for other games however.

No longer do you have to be sat/stood in one place or funnelled down a straight corridor, never turning around. Full range of movement is possible and you can actually be pretty nimble when you have to be so moving around at speed isn’t a problem. The technical side lets things down a bit but it’s hard to tell where the blame lies there and the lack of enemy variety, similar looking locations and physical demands mean it’s probably not a game you want to play for too long in one sitting. Still, if you enjoy shooting things in VR, and judging by the amount of them most people do, then Raw Data offers something slightly different which means it’ll hold your attention for that little bit longer.

Raw data, also known as primary data, is data (e.g., numbers, instrument readings, figures, etc.) collected from a source. In the context of examinations, the raw data might be described as a raw score.

If a scientist sets up a computerized thermometer which records the temperature of a chemical mixture in a test tube every minute, the list of temperature readings for every minute, as printed out on a spreadsheet or viewed on a computer screen is 'raw data'. Raw data has not been subjected to processing, 'cleaning' by researchers to remove outliers, obvious instrument reading errors or data entry errors, or any analysis (e.g., determining central tendency aspects such as the average or median result). As well, raw data has not been subject to any other manipulation by a software program or a human researcher, analyst or technician. It is also referred to as primary data. Raw data is a relative term (see data), because even once raw data has been 'cleaned' and processed by one team of researchers, another team may consider this processed data to be 'raw data' for another stage of research. Raw data can be inputted to a computer program or used in manual procedures such as analyzing statistics from a survey. The term 'raw data' can refer to the binary data on electronic storage devices, such as hard disk drives (also referred to as 'low-level data').

Generating data[edit]

Data has two ways of being created or generated. The first is what is called 'captured data',^[1] and is found through purposeful investigation or analysis. The second is called 'exhaust data',^[1] and is gathered usually by machines or terminals as a secondary function. For example, cash registers, smartphones, and speedometers serve a main function but may collect data as a secondary task. Exhaustive data is usually too large or of little use to process and becomes 'transient'^[1] or thrown away.

Examples[edit]

In computing, raw data may have the following attributes: it may possibly contain human, machine, or instrument errors, it may not be validated; it might be in different areen (colloquial) formats; uncoded or unformatted; or some entries might be 'suspect' (e.g., outliers), requiring confirmation or citation. For example, a data input sheet might contain dates as raw data in many forms: '31st January 1999', '31/01/1999', '31/1/99', '31 Jan', or 'today'. Once captured, this raw data may be processed stored as a normalized format, perhaps a Julian date, to make it easier for computers and humans to interpret during later processing. Raw data (sometimes colloquially called 'sourcey' data or 'eggy' data, the latter a reference to the data being 'uncooked', that is, 'unprocessed', like a raw egg) are the data input to processing. A distinction is made between data and information, to the effect that information is the end product of data processing. Raw data that has undergone processing are sometimes referred to as 'cooked' data in a colloquial sense.^[dubious] Although raw data has the potential to be transformed into 'information,' extraction, organization, analysis and formatting for presentation are required before raw data can be transformed into usable information.

For example, a point-of-sale terminal (POS terminal, a computerized cash register) in a busy supermarket collects huge volumes of raw data each day about customers' purchases. However, this list of grocery items and their prices and the time and date of purchase does not yield much information until it is processed. Once processed and analyzed by a software program or even by a researcher using a pen and paper and a calculator, this raw data may indicate the particular items that each customer buys, when they buy them, and at what price; as well, an analyst or manager could calculate the average total sales per customer or the average expenditure per day of the week by hour. This processed and analyzed data provides information for the manager, that the manager could then use to help her determine, for example, how many cashiers to hire and at what times. Such information could then become data for further processing, for example as part of a predictive marketing campaign. As a result of processing, raw data sometimes ends up being put in a database, which enables the raw data to become accessible for further processing and analysis in any number of different ways.

Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) argues that sharing raw data is important for society. Inspired by a post by Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge Foundation his call to action is 'Raw Data Now', meaning that everyone should demand that governments and businesses share the data they collect as raw data. He points out that 'data drives a huge amount of what happens in our lives… because somebody takes the data and does something with it.' To Berners-Lee, it is essentially from this sharing of raw data, that advances in science will emerge. Advocates of open data argue that once citizens and civil society organizations have access to data from businesses and governments, it will enable citizens and NGOs to do their own analysis of the data, which can empower people and civil society. For example, a government may claim that its policies are reducing the unemployment rate, but a poverty advocacy group may be able to have its staff econometricians do their own analysis of the raw data, which may lead this group to draw different conclusions about the data set.

Further reading[edit]

• Give Us the Data Raw, and Give it to Us Now - the blog post from Rufus Pollock that inspired Tim Berners-Lee

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcKitchin, Rob (2014). The Data Revolution. United States: Sage. p. 6.